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2D in CIVIL3D

Is there a way to make civil 3d draw in 2d? I am drafting a survey and would like to be able to draw all of my lines at a zero elevation. I have tried using the "flatten" command after I draw a line, but then when I zoom into a point one of the lines comes from, the point and the endpoint of the line are not in the same location. It appears shifted.

I miss LDD. Autodesk seems to have completely forgotten about the surveyor with it's new versions.

Re: 2D in CIVIL3D

Originally Posted by MikeMcCulley.RLS

Is there a way to make civil 3d draw in 2d? I am drafting a survey and would like to be able to draw all of my lines at a zero elevation. I have tried using the "flatten" command after I draw a line, but then when I zoom into a point one of the lines comes from, the point and the endpoint of the line are not in the same location. It appears shifted.

I miss LDD. Autodesk seems to have completely forgotten about the surveyor with it's new versions.

It's no different than it is in LDT or even vanilla AutoCAD.
When you pick a point, it will use the current elevation unless you use object snap, in which case it will use the elevation of the snapped point. To avoid this effect, set OSNAPZ to 1.